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Switched to https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ last week. Excellent service and pricing.

by austengary 14y ago

Kudos 14y ago
Yeah, a week sounds like plenty of time to assess a hosting provider.
- austengary 14y ago
  Oh, and the years of Linode assessment were adequate?
  - umsm 14y ago
    Every site can be hacked. It's just a matter of time. You just have to properly react: call your CC provider, check for any charges on your bill, and move on.
    - austengary 14y ago
      I do not think anyone here is actually worried about their funds; as mentioned below, any reputable provider will have such charges promptly reversed. The problem is instead with their response to the situation. Linode has addressed the breach, but assured customers nothing of value had been compromised. This infers two thoughts. One: they knew of the breach and lied, thereby unveiling a unforthcoming and dishonest nature. Or two: they did not properly investigative the severity of the issue, thereby suggesting incompetence. Both equally reprehensible.
      - gcr 14y ago
        Mm, not equally. I'd rather have incompetence over malice.
mratzloff 14y ago
Until they're hacked, too...
- austengary 14y ago
  Unlike Linode, they accept PayPal.
  - oinksoft 14y ago
    I'm far more concerned about the integrity of my servers than about my CC, which has good fraud protection.
- shuzchen 14y ago
  Or until they let other customers see all the data on VMs that you've shut down. Oh wait, that already happened: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/
  - gcr 14y ago
    DigitalOcean is new and they fixed the problem the same day the article was written: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-issue https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is... If I had a choice between a VPS provider who either: - Only has large issues (eg. leaks credit card data) and goes weeks without reporting them to customers, or - Has lots of small issues (eg. forgetting to clean the free space of LVM volumes) but fixes them the same day, I'd much prefer the latter. EDIT: My bad, apparently the problem was reported on March 27 and wasn't fixed until April 2.
    - bad_user 14y ago
      There is no evidence to suggest that Linode leaked credit card data. Personally I took precautionary measures and just called my bank to replace my credit card, which I think is the sane approach, as when it comes to hacking you have to assume the worst. However, your statement on "has lots of small issues but fixes them the same day" is just stupidly childish. Linode's issues are bigger just because they are a bigger target.
level09 14y ago
was not convinced by the website, looks nice but prices are kind of very cheap ? also a twitter feed for the customers page ?

Switched to https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ last week. Excellent service and pricing.

Kudos 14y ago

Yeah, a week sounds like plenty of time to assess a hosting provider.

austengary 14y ago
Oh, and the years of Linode assessment were adequate?
- umsm 14y ago
  Every site can be hacked. It's just a matter of time. You just have to properly react: call your CC provider, check for any charges on your bill, and move on.
  - austengary 14y ago
    I do not think anyone here is actually worried about their funds; as mentioned below, any reputable provider will have such charges promptly reversed. The problem is instead with their response to the situation. Linode has addressed the breach, but assured customers nothing of value had been compromised. This infers two thoughts. One: they knew of the breach and lied, thereby unveiling a unforthcoming and dishonest nature. Or two: they did not properly investigative the severity of the issue, thereby suggesting incompetence. Both equally reprehensible.
    - gcr 14y ago
      Mm, not equally. I'd rather have incompetence over malice.

mratzloff 14y ago

Until they're hacked, too...

austengary 14y ago
Unlike Linode, they accept PayPal.
- oinksoft 14y ago
  I'm far more concerned about the integrity of my servers than about my CC, which has good fraud protection.
shuzchen 14y ago
Or until they let other customers see all the data on VMs that you've shut down. Oh wait, that already happened: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/
- gcr 14y ago
  DigitalOcean is new and they fixed the problem the same day the article was written: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-issue https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/resolved-lvm-data-is... If I had a choice between a VPS provider who either: - Only has large issues (eg. leaks credit card data) and goes weeks without reporting them to customers, or - Has lots of small issues (eg. forgetting to clean the free space of LVM volumes) but fixes them the same day, I'd much prefer the latter. EDIT: My bad, apparently the problem was reported on March 27 and wasn't fixed until April 2.
  - bad_user 14y ago
    There is no evidence to suggest that Linode leaked credit card data. Personally I took precautionary measures and just called my bank to replace my credit card, which I think is the sane approach, as when it comes to hacking you have to assume the worst. However, your statement on "has lots of small issues but fixes them the same day" is just stupidly childish. Linode's issues are bigger just because they are a bigger target.

level09 14y ago

was not convinced by the website, looks nice but prices are kind of very cheap ? also a twitter feed for the customers page ?